Lottery Site Updated - Getting near to launch!

16:39.15 - Saturday 19th November 2005   (Link to This Entry)

It's still not ready - of course! - but I've been putting a little more time into the Lottery site today and one of the things I was working was some serious number crunching using the Super-Enhanced-Random-umber-Generator I mentioned a while ago. There are two parts to it - a server-updating side and a display-the-results side.

As expected, simply plucking results from the database and bunging them into a table is the easiest bit, but it's taken me weeks to even bother looking at it. The server-update part is the fun bit, but even that's come on nicely. I've also uploaded my partial administration area, tweaked the update scripts and done some more tidying up, and I'm pretty sure that the site is ready to launch. Obviously I want a fully-working admin site before I do that, however, so there's lots to do there.

Oh, and Camelot have updated the Lotto Hotpicks game so that you can pick 1-5 numbers, as opposed to 2-4 previously. Thankfully this is a non-event as far as my website goes.